“[H]aving the world’s biggest advertising company make the most popular Web browser [is] about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop.”
@washingtonpost

@geoffreyfowler explains why the “#Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.” He recommends #Firefox. (My pick is Safari first, then Firefox.)

DYK? “Google quietly began signing Gmail users into Chrome last fall.”

#GoogleIsEvil
#Google
#GiftLink #GiftArtcle

https://wapo.st/3SaZkYH

OLD ARTICLE
Missed the date. Sorry!

Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s Web browser has become spy software

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.

The Washington Post

@kegill @washingtonpost @geoffreyfowler

For better privacy related browsers checkout https://privacytests.org/ for their latest guide - Mullvad, Tor and Brave did better overall.

@kegill @washingtonpost @geoffreyfowler I, uh... look, this headline. They sound surprised?

"This just in, sky is blue. More on that in a moment. But first! We have just discovered that Chrome is basically spy software!"

@tekhedd

Old. Old.

It was on Trending in Ivory and I missed the date. Apologies!

@washingtonpost @geoffreyfowler

@kegill @washingtonpost @geoffreyfowler just because the article is old doesn't make it any less true.

I use Chrome for work because my company lives in Google's cloud. *Everything else* lives in somebody else's browser. The first thing I do when I get a new device is go grab Firefox, then if it's not a work device, disable or delete Chrome. Oh, and Edge is badge-engineered Chrome; if you're on Windows, lose that too.

35 years of working in the greasy underbelly of the 'net speaks...

@stonebear

Thanks! I segregated my use a long time ago. Most is Safari. Then FF. Trying to use DuckDuckGo as another secondary browser.